The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-06

w llmlnSCOn, ana heVS. w. ii. Neal
in Va, Geo. F. Robertson, of Tenn
and w. J. Tidball, of N. c., all min
listers of the gospel of Christ and fill /
ing important posts.
The year after leaving college Fries
visited the Paris Exposition and most
of the great industrial centres of the /
old world Upon his return he enter
ed into partnership with his uncle
Henry w Fries and his brothers John |
w. and Frank II. Fries to continue
the manufacturing business establish
ed by his father, under the now every
where known and highly respected |
firm name of F. & III. Fries. Though |
still quite young, Henry E. Fries was
at this time fully capable of taking
entire charge of the extensive Wach-
ovia FIGURING Mills. In this respon-
sible position his training to work, as
we'll as to direct other peoples, work
began to tell. He made Il study of
the grain of his section and the best
methods of milling it, he perfected
method of bookkeeping for Touring
mills by which he could tell exactly
what every pound of wheat should
yield in the various products, and so
adjusted the machinery with his own
hands as to reduce the waste to min
| imum and insure profit in competi-
tion with cheap western grain, while
he made as good products as could be
found anywhere. These problems set
tied, Fries determined to bnild up the
wheat growing interests of his section.
To do this, he, with the aid of few
friends organized and held several sue
cessful Wheat Fairs. He scattered
better varieties of wheat all through
his country and by these and other
methods developed to great degree
the grain-growing business of his sec
ton, to its great and permanent ad-
vantage So famous did the grain of
that section of the State become, that
it was exhibited at the Boston Expo
sition, the n. Y. Exchange, the New
Orleans Exposition and the seed from
this region has since been sent all
through the South.
An intelligent and sympathizine
wife is the greatest blessing and sup
port busy man can have, and Henry
Fries won all this, and a vast dea
more of comfort and of happiness fol
himself, when he married an educated
and accomplished young woman of hi:
native town in 1881 His wife became
a help-meet indeed to him from the
beginning, and much of his success
with the Forsyth County Exhibit, the
first county exhibit made in the coun
try and the germ idea which develop
Cd ha E<-n1.i+iA,,
the State Fair OF 1882; with the Stat,
Exposition itself and with every othe
public enterprise with which he ha
been connected, is to be attributed t.
the assistance and encouragement o
this good woman.
Next to getting good, practica
training to work himsslf, we woul'
e advise every young man to get a goo
5, practically educated wife. Handle Graf
n is as much requisite and an orna
5. ment TO Il woman as to a man. Th
} great women of Bible and story wer
t. all handcrafts women. "She layet
' her hand to the spindle and her hand
hold the distaff. She is not afraid {
1t the snow for her household for a
is her household are clothed with scal
a. let" The husband of such a woman
ID says the same wise man 'is known
es the gates If we had less piano an
v painting in our girl schools, regardle
G. of natural tastes and ability, and mol
O. walking and work, according to ply
re ical needs, we would not be wonde
le ing why the women of this generate
gs have twice as many ailments as the
lis great-grand mothers ever heard of.
or But we must pass over, for the wa
or of space, much that is interesting al
ld would point many an excellent lesSo
MT in the career of our friend and mott
We briefly his work as Secretary of Il
ly State Exposition of 1854 The cha
IT'S acteristic and valuable feature of tn
Exposition, the feature which rende
ng ed it as justly famous as it was oris
of nal, among State Fairs, was the VIC
ch derful exhibition of natural resouro
Eat crude, mineral and forest produc
agricultural and manufacture OF pl
ed ducts from this State, which was ma
nv there. There was nothing like it
raj fore, for single State, there has be
,ot nothing equal to it since. Hen
ay Fries prepared the way for, and tt
raj certain point, wrought out the idea
nd this exhibition at his Wheat Fairs a
for his County Exhibit. The plan a
tu. its benefits were also illustrated by
mas States exhibits at Atlanta and b
in ton.
all When the people of Raleigh det
sti- mined to have this Exposition,
ms, came, almost like an institution,
t the promoters of it, that there "
the two men who could make it suce